Dish-warmer.



PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

R. L. WASHINGTON.

DISH WARMER.

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ROLLAND L. WASHINGTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

, DISH-WARMER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1908.

Application filed June 11, 1907. Serial No. 378,436.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, HOLLAND L. WAsn- INeToN, a citizen of the'UnitedStates of America, residing at Boston, in the county of Sufiolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements inDish-l/Varmers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to dish warmers, designed more particularly foruse on railway dining cars, and one of the principal objects of the sameis to provide a simple device for keeping dishes warm in railway diningcars, and to provide means for furnishing hot water whenever required.

Another object of the invention is to provide simple means for keepingdishes warm, for producing hot water at any time, and to provideconvenient means for washing dishes whenever required, on railway diningcars.

It has been particularly inconvenient on dining cars as at presentarranged to provide means keeping dishes hot in cold weather, and forproviding a ready supply of hot Water, owing principally to the factthat but little room is afforded for modern appliances for the purposesreferred to.

My invention has for one of its principal objects to provide increasedfacilities for washing dishes in hot 'water, providing means for keepingdishes hot for service in the dining car, and to provide a ready supplyof hot water whenever required.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a dish warmer made inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on theline 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33 ofFig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar view on the line 4-4. of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings for a more particular description of myinvention, the numeral 1 designates an outer casing made preferably ofsheet metal in the form of a sink having closed bottom and sides and anopen top. Properly supported upon the bottom of the casm 1 is a seriesof supports 2 upon which a perforated plate 3 is supported, said platehaving a series ofperforations 4 therein. The function of saidperforated plate is to form a basis for the supports 5 upon which theheavy metal tray rests and also providing space below the perforatedlate for the steam heater. Connected to tie upper side of the plate 3 isa series of supports 5. A tray 6 is supported upon the supports 5 at thebottom thereof, and at the upper edge of the tray outwardly extendingflanges 7 are provided which rest upon the upper edge of the casing 1,as shown more particularly in Figs. 1 and 2. A steam inlet pipe 8extends through the casing 1 at a point below the plate 3, and upon theinner end of the pipe 8 a steam heater 9 is connected, said steam heaterhaving its top portion 10 provided with a series of perforations 11. Asuitable cook or valve 12 is provided in the steam in let pipe 8. Asteam gage 13 is supported upon the upper end of a gage pipe 14, thelower end of which communicates with the steam chamber 15, as at 16. Ahot water spigot 17 communicates with the bottom of the casing 1 and maybe used for drawing off the hot water of condensation whenever hot wateris required. An exhaust cook 18 communicates with the interior of thecasing above the'plate 3. A waste pipe 19 extends through the bottom ofthe casing 1 through the plate 3 and through the bottom of the tray 6,and may be fitted with a suitable plug whenever it is required to usethe tray 6 as a hot water sink for washing dishes.

In use, the tray 6 may be kept warm for heating dishes for the table byopening the valve 12 and permitting steam to pass through the pipe 8into the heater 9. The pipe 8 may be connected to the hot water supplyfrom the locomotive. Whenever hot water is required, the water ofcondensation in the compartment 15 may be drawn off through the spigot17. 'WVhen it is desired to use the tray 6 as a dish washer, a plug maybe inserted in the waste ipe within the tray and hot water may be p acedin the tray for washing the dishes.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a device made in accordancewith my invention takes but little room, is very convenient infurnishing hot water, keeping dishes warm, and in washing dishes,-underconditions where economy of space is a consideration.

Having thus described the invention, What I claim is:

In a device of the character described, the combination of an outercasing, a perforated plate disposed above the bottom of the casing thecasing; and a Waste pipe extending and resting on supports, a tray abovethe the plate and through the bottom of the tray, plate Within thecasing, said tray resting upon substantially as described.

supports secured to the erforated plate, a In testimony whereof, I afliXmy signature steam heater disposed be OW the perforated I in presence oftwo Witnesses.

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Water pipe connected to the lower portion of l/Vitnesses:

J H. EDWARDS, E. E. STEWART.

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